54 CVI, AMARANTACEZ (BAKER AND CLARKE). [Cyphocarpa. 
278, not of Hook. f. Sericocomopsis Welwitschii, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvii. 42, t. 1E; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 889. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Mossamedes; in sandy places by the Bero River, 
Welwitsch, 6501 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Zugard, 170! 
4, C. quadrangula, ©. 2B. Cl. Branches quadrangular, hairy. 
Leaves opposite, thinly hairy; blade 4 by 1-1} in., oblong-elliptic. 
Inflorescence of 4 or 5 short-peduncled spikes (24 in. Jong), terminal and 
from the penultimate axils, springing nearly from the same point.— 
Sericocoma quadrangula, Engl. in Eng]. Jahrb. x. 7; Schinz in Engl. 
Jahrb, xxi. 183, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 65, Sericocomopsis 
quadrangula, Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Usakos, 3000 ft., 
Marloth, 1255 ; and without precise locality, Chapman & Baines ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, Mrs. 
Lugard, 221! 
This is a larger plant, with larger leaves and inflorescence, than C. Welwitschit ; 
but the stamens and ovary are so closely alike that I doubt its being specifically 
different. 
5. C. pallida, (. B. Ci. A branched, grey-tomentose undershrub, 
18 in. high or more. Leaves opposite; blade 14 by 1 in., obovate- 
elliptic, obtuse, the tomentum flaking off in patches; petiole hardly 
4in. long. Inflorescence terminal, short-peduncled, 14 by 2 in., rather 
loose, not spinous, at least when young ; partial inflorescences } in. long, 
white at the top, full of hair, with often 2 fertile flowers; cells of the 
hairs rather long, minutely scabrid at the joinings. Filaments linear 
to the base, joined in a very short cup; the intermediate processes 
obovate-lacerate, 4 the length of the filaments. Ovary hairy, somewhat 
obovoid, not truncate.—Sericocoma pallida, 8. Moore in Journ, Bot. 
1877, 70. Sericocomopsis pallida, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185; 
Schweinf. & Volk. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 201; Gilg in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 152; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, 4000 ft., Hildebrandt, 880! 1521! 
Harradigit, James & Thrupp ! and without precise locality, Drake-Brockman, 361 ! 
6. C. Hildebrandtii, C. 2B. Cl. A branched, hairy (not tomentose) 
undershrub, Leaves opposite ; blade 1} by 2 in., elliptic, triangular at 
either end; petiole ;4; in. long. Inflorescences 6-7 by 3 in., straw- 
colour; partial inflorescences broadly ovoid, lower standing apart, of 
4-12 fertile flowers (being themselves compound). Hairs in the flower- 
clusters white, very fine, cells rather long, scabrid at the joinings. 
Fertile flowers { in. long; perianth-segments lanceolate, subobtuse, 
sterile flowers not spinescent. Filaments linear to the base, with 
a quadrate hairy process between each pair; staminal tube very short. 
Ovary obovoid, glabrous ; style Jonger than the ovary.—Sericocomopsis 
Hildebrandtii, Schinz in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 184, 185, in Engl. Pf. Ost- 
